Well that time is here, Vista release day is here! What are you going to do stand in line to get it? (Okay it isn’t on a par with Lord of the Rings but it sounded good.) Or are you one of the many that is is going to sit back and watch and see what happens? I have heard from many that they plan to keep running their old XP and let the rest of the world work out the bugs that are sure to be introduced today.

Myself I have tried the beta’s and see nothing that will get me running to the local software provider to get a full copy. Why spend a lot of money for a OS that will require me to update my hardware as well as the software just to run it at it’s full potential? Why go ape over features that Linux and Mac has had for years? And in true Microsoft tradition they have added these features with more more bloat that could have ever been dreamed of by the everyday user.

And yes I watched Bill on the Daily Show last night and it was a good laugh watching John attempt to social engineer Billy’s password out of him but I will bet that is the last laugh a lot of folks will have once they install Vista on their computers. So the bottom line is I will sit back and run my systems with Linux and my one Game/Test Box with XP and leave my world in a little less chaos and see what it is like in another 6 months or a year and then if I have to maybe I will switch then, maybe.

CodeWeavers this month announced version 6.0 of its flagship Windows compatibility product. Now called CrossOver Linux, the new version is the first with official support for games. With its growing application support and foray into gaming, CrossOver Linux 6 is an excellent alternative for Linux users who are stuck with a Windows application at work or at school.

Source: Running Windows applications with CrossOver Linux 6.0

Browser usage numbers for 2006 are beginning to appear on the Web, and for the first time in many moons the market share of Microsoft’s dominant offering, Internet Explorer, has dipped below 80 percent. While Internet Explorer’s star was sinking, its chief competitor’s, Mozilla Firefox, was ascending. Its market share climbed from 9.50 percent in January 2006 to 14 percent in December — just about the time version 2.0 of the browser was released.

Source: Firefox 2.0: Subtle Changes, Big Difference

We’ve passed the halfway point in this series of articles on podcasting with open source tools. From the value of podcasts, to a summary of the available open source podcasting-friendly tools, to a detailed look at both Audacity and normalize, we’ve covered a fair amount of ground. I hope you’ve found the information useful to this point. We’ve picked our way through some of the minefields of the tools, and exposed some hidden process gotchas. We’ve also talked about the importance of sound quality, even in a podcast intended to emphasize its DIY roots.

Source: Attack of the Pod Penguins 6: MP3 Basics

How to disable the stupid Snap Preview things that are popping up on everyone’s site these days. (via df) (link)

Source: How to disable the stupid Snap Preview things that are…